How The Sleuthhound! Pro works?
What is a Search Zone?
How to search for documents?
How to create new Search Zone for The Sleuthhound! Pro?
How The Sleuthhound! Pro can automatically watch folders ?
How to Search for any document types?

The Sleuthhound! Pro is fully-functional hard disk search engine that operates like Web Search Engines! The Sleuthhound's basic principles are similar to Web Search Engine methods (AltaVista, Lycos etc.).

Before searching, The Sleuthhound! Pro will review the folders on the hard disk and memorize the information about all words from all documents and create a Search Zone. After that, if you want to search documents, simply type the keywords into The Sleuthhound! Pro search box and click the command Find it!

The Sleuthhound! Pro finds the keywords in its "memory" files and shows to you the documents that contain the keywords. Since The Sleuthhound! Pro uses modern methods of building "memory" files and searching for the information The Sleuthhound! Pro gives you instant search processes and instant results.

The basic principle of operation is to view Search Zones before the search. Prior to the searching, The Sleuthhound! Pro must review the folders on the hard disk (the Search Zone) and memorize the information about all the documents from set folders into its "memory" files. Those folders are called Search Zones and are viewed by The Sleuthhound! Pro according to the set frequency scheduled.

Search Zone is space on hard disk consisting of folders where The Sleuthhound! Pro searches for documents. Prior to the search The Sleuthhound! must review the folders on hard disk (Search Zone) and memorize the information about all the documents from folders into its "memory" files.

To set The Sleuthhound! Pro onto folders means to order The Sleuthhound! Pro to review the folders and creates special files(index files) that describe documents in a Search Zone.

Adding folders to a Search Zone means that The Sleuthhound! Pro will search for the documents in the added folders only, in future.

The Sleuthhound! Pro functions effectively and quickly, no matter what the document name is or which folder holds the document. The Sleuthhound! Pro can find all documents in one second!

Start The Sleuthhound! Pro from the system tray or the Desktop.

Enter the keywords you wish to search for in the box below the picture of sleuthhound.

Click the Find it! button to retrieve all documents on your hard disk that contain the keywords.

In case you don't get any results, check if your setting of the current Search Zone is correct.

Start The Sleuthhound! Pro, open the Search Zone Manager panel (or right click the mouse) and choose Set The Sleuthhound! on the pop-up menu.

If you use the Search Zone Manager click New to Create a new Search Zone or click Extend to extend existing Search Zone.

Use the Wizard (right click in the text box) and follow the instructions.

Add into the Search Zone the most important folders and documents: My documents, for example.

Set the frequency of updating Search Zone with Search Zone Manager/Schedule.

The Sleuthhound! Pro can automatically watch your folders and documents. Put The Sleuthhound! Pro into Windows Startup folder . When you start Windows The Sleuthhound! Pro loads itself in the system tray.

To put The Sleuthhound! Pro on startup folder perform the following operation. Right click the mouse in the Main Window and activate the pop-up menu. Select Add to StartUp.

Click Search Zome Maneger/Shedule button to set Schedule of updating current Search Zone. The Sleuthhound! Pro may updated Search Zone every day, week or month that you need. By default Search Zone will update every week.

The Sleuthhound! Pro can search for documents any document type if text coding is compatible with ASCII, ANSI, Unicode. For Example *.c, *.cpp, *.bas, etc. Use user type document (for advanced user only) for search for the documents extensive types.

To include into Search Zone User type document do the following.
Start Wizard of creating Search Zone. On a second step Wizard "Select document types to include into Search Zone" enter the mask of documents into user type field.

The example of using user type document:
Type *.wpd to include into Search Zone WordPerfect documents.
Type *.ppt to include into Search Zone Power Point documents (text information only).
Type *.bas to include into Search Zone Basic texts

You can type several document type mask into user type field separated it by comma " , ".
The example of using several user type document:
Type *.bas, *.c, *.cpp, *.h to include into Search Zone all documents this types.

IMPORTANT
iSleuthHound Technologies doesn't guarantee correct process of creating Search Zone, searching for documents user types, and The Sleuthhound! Pro functioning correctly.
Please test using user document type on small Search Zone (2-5 documents only). If the Search is successful include into Search Zone more documents of user types.